Configuration of the thermal landscape determines thermoregulatory performance of ectotherms.

@article{Sears2016ConfigurationOT,
title={Configuration of the thermal landscape determines thermoregulatory performance of ectotherms.},
author={Michael W Sears and Michael J Angilletta and Matthew S Schuler and Jason D Borchert and Katherine F Dilliplane and Monica Stegman and Travis W Rusch and William A. Mitchell},
journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
year={2016},
volume={113 38},
pages={10595-600}
}

Although most organisms thermoregulate behaviorally, biologists still cannot easily predict whether mobile animals will thermoregulate in natural environments. Current models fail because they ignore how the spatial distribution of thermal resources constrains thermoregulatory performance over space and time. To overcome this limitation, we modeled the spatially explicit movements of animals constrained by access to thermal resources. Our models predict that ectotherms thermoregulate more… CONTINUE READING